Aging and delirium: an old known in the Emergency Department
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Keywords

Dementia
Delirium
Aged
Geriatrics

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Valencia, C., Heredia, R., & Envejecimiento y delirium: un viejo conocido en el Departamento de Urgencias Moreno, A. (2014). Aging and delirium: an old known in the Emergency Department. Médicas UIS, 27(2). Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistamedicasuis/article/view/4328

Abstract

With increasing life expectancy, it is coming to a marked increase of the geriatric diseases in emergency departments; multifactorial disease and increasingly of interest in the clinical setting. example of this reality is the delirium, which in the past 30 years has produced a marked interest in the medical literature as a result of the Renaissance as a diagnosis in the emergency units and intensive care, probably as a result of the emergence of medical specialties as geriatrics who have rescued the old man’s disease, this article presents a review of delirium in emergency departments and their correlation with the aging population.

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